From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Turn off selection coloring Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:22:29 +0200 Message-ID: <878wggt3m2.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87vdjkjah3.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253042624 14213 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2009 19:23:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:23:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 21:23:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mndcl-00013n-Fv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:23:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mndck-0003uY-Qr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mndc4-0003lU-VM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mndc0-0003jn-TH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34027 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mndbz-0003ji-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50755) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mndbz-00025Z-1P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mndbx-0000lF-76 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:22:45 +0200 Original-Received: from p54af2397.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.35.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:22:45 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af2397.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:22:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af2397.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5pHz9vY0Bjd0UwsA5fSS6FkzRz4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68166 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: Hi Harry, > I'll admit I only spent about 10 minutes looking for this answer... I > did > > [...] > > I didn't find out how to turn off the blue color that appears when > mark is set, and I scroll. Indicating a selected region. The one that > requires two spc bar hits to turn off. When you only want to remove the coloring, then do M-x customize-face RET region and remove the background color there. If you don't like the new special handling [1] of the active region at all, then put (transient-mark-mode -1) into your ~/.emacs. Bye, Tassilo __________ [1] Some commands behave differently when the mark is active of deactivated. This can be very handy, although this feature isn't used too much till now.